“All my life I have been fighting against the spirit of narrowness and violence, arrogance, intolerance in its absolute, merciless consistency. I have also worked to overcome this spirit with its evil consequences, such as nationalism in excess, racial persecution, and materialism. In regards to this, the National Socialists are correct in killing me.
I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me – and in the end, that is a man’s duty.”
Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Executed in Plötzensee Prison on 23 January 1945
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Executed in Flossenbürg Camp on 9 April 1945
“…the spirit of narrowness & violence, arrogance, intolerance in its absolute, merciless consistency…”
Describes prevalent, controlling, aspects of human nature.
But conscience, conscientious fighting against these sub-subconscious reflexes is truly sowing the wind. Martyrs got subn-subconscious motivations of their own, & the highest attainment of those motivations is the whirlwind.
Ed Seykota:
“Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.”
“I think that if people look deeply enough into their trading patterns, they find that, on balance, including all their goals, they are really getting what they want, even though they may not understand it or want to admit it.”